Men, Women and Ghosts

by Amy Lowell

Overview

Part of the Imagist School, poet Amy Lowell, won a Pulitzer Price for her poetry in 1926. She was an American cigar-smoking proponent of free-verse modernism in open rebellion against her Boston upbringing. She rejected Victorian attitudes and wrote poems about the situations around her. Lowell refers to these poems as stories. The collection includes Figurines in Old Saxe, Bronze Tablets, War Pictures, The Overgrown Pasture, and Clocks Tick a Century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781438535487
Publisher:	Book Jungle
Publication date:	02/04/2010
Pages:	214
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.45(d)

About the Author

Amy Lowell (1874-1925) was an American poet. Born into an elite family of businessmen, politicians, and intellectuals, Lowell was a member of the so-called Boston Brahmin class. She excelled in school from a young age and developed a habit for reading and book collecting. Denied the opportunity to attend college by her family, Lowell traveled extensively in her twenties and turned to poetry in 1902. While in England with her lover Ada Dwyer Russell, she met American poet Ezra Pound, whose influence as an imagist and fierce critic of Lowell’s work would prove essential to her poetry. In 1912, only two years after publishing her first poem in The Atlantic Monthly, Lowell produced A Dome of Many-Coloured Glasses, her debut volume of poems. In addition to such collections of her own poems as Sword Blades and Poppy Seed (1914) and Men, Women, and Ghosts (1916), Lowell published translations of 8th century Chinese poet Li Tai-po and, at the time of her death, had been working on a biography of English Romantic John Keats.